KARACHI: The Public Private Partnership (PPP) Policy board meeting held under the chairmanship of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah here at the CM House has approved IT City, Domicile and PRC Automation project and Livestock tagging projects under PPP mode.
Secretary IT Raheem Shaikh briefing the board said that the IT department has conceived the Arfa Karim IT City project in 2012, the project is to be located at a land on Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway (M-9) within Education City project. The project has been allocated 200 acres of land.
He said that the according to plan, the development area would contain retail, office space for IT development houses, IT training institutes, call centers, hardware communication equipment manufacturers, internet/communication service providers, camp incubators, research and development facilities, e-business, media group and production houses sects.
The chief minister approved the project in consultation with board members and directed the IT department to go ahead and launch it in public private partnership (PPP).
The Domicile and PRC Automation project has also been conceived by IT department. The project would help share government of Sindh’s IT vision with IT industry and general public.
The chief minister said that the existing domicile and PRC process is paper-based and ipso-facto lengthy, time consuming and cumbersome. More importantly the documents are usually archived in un-indexed files rendering these to susceptible to loss and damage. He added that the shortcomings in the existing system leads to issuance of fake as well as issuance of more than one domiciles of different districts to a single applicant.
Secretary Mr Raheem said that that the domicile and PRC project would be a centralized project with a centralized database which would reside at a central serve system. The front-end software application with features of bio-matric system would be connected with the central data-base system. Therefore, the new automation system would not only share data electronically but would also powered with automatically and multiple checks to ensure transparency, error free and avoid duplication.
The board approved the project and directed the IT department to start the process for consultant solicitation.
The chief minister and the board was told that in order to meet the international requirement/criteria for export of livestock, meat and dairy products and also to improve their standards for local consumption, PPP policy board had approved the proposal in 2013.
The feasibility study for the project has been completed in two phases. The first phase consists of complete methodology and action plan for the project implementation, which also include preliminary data collection and review alongwith a study of tagging and traceability practices prevailing in various conutries. The second phase consists of technical, legal, environmental, socio-economic and financial viability alongwith PPP options.
The chief minister proposed that the project may be launched as pilot project on PPP mode. He with the consent of the board directed the Livestock department to go ahead.
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